Citing damage to the environment, the economy, drinking water supplies and more, The Wilderness Society, along with other national groups across the U.S., is urging the President and Congress to end years of budget cuts to conservation and natural resource programs.

Today, for the first time in five years, Congress designated land to be protected as wilderness. The House of Representatives approved the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act (S.

The Wilderness Society welcomed several items in President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget, including a better federal funding mechanism for combatting severe wildfires, more funds to address the impacts of climate change and a significant increase to chronically under-funded conservation